Make your mark in our exciting world at Siemens. We are a collection of over 372, 000 minds building the future, one day at a time. Together, we create technologies that take society further. We’re looking for people with the skills and vision to build a better tomorrow. Join our Digital Industries Division as an Emerging Talent Manager and help us re-imagine the world by finding solutions and making the world a smarter place for tomorrow. The position will be split split between our Congleton and Manchester offices. As an Emerging Talent Manager, you will be responsible for the effective day-to-day operational management of Siemens UK Digital Industries business’s internal apprenticeship and graduate schemes. This is a highly sought-after apprenticeship and graduate programme, with 60 learners currently on our schemes. The person will join and play a key role in our Emerging Talent steering committee, which monitors our schemes’ effectiveness, drives improvements and provides strategic direction. This is a great opportunity for someone with experience in this field to make their mark in a vitality important role in our business, delivering highly skilled, motivated and trained employees to fill key vacancies. This is your role. What part will you play? Responsible for the day-to-day operational management of our internal apprenticeship and graduate schemes. The schemes operate to develop and prepare our early careers professionals’ technical competencies and skills to successfully take on permanent roles in the DI business. It would be expected that the incumbent would spend around 80% of their time managing the apprenticeship scheme (given the larger number of learners and greater governance responsibilities), with around 20% of time dedicated to the graduate scheme. As a guide, DI in the UK currently employs 47 apprentices and 15 graduates. Manages part-time scheme co-ordinators for the smooth operation of the internal apprenticeship and graduate schemes. Drives continuous improvement in the operation of these schemes, in line with best practice, internal and external benchmarking. Day-to-day activities: With the scheme co-ordinators, the role holder is responsible for designing and managing the overall placement programme; ensures that learners obtain a broad overview of our business and customer base and their placements meet the requirements of the apprenticeship and graduate standards. Oversees effective recruitment, training, development, performance management and offboarding processes in line with required internal and external standards. Maintains understanding of apprenticeship funding system; secures and maintains funding for DI’s apprentices. Safeguarding: Undertake Safeguarding training to become a Designated Safeguarding Person. Governance: Liaise with Siemens’ Professional Education (SPE) team to ensure that the apprenticeship scheme operates in line with industry standards. Accountable for auditable paperwork to support SPE audits Ensure completion and submission of annual self-assessment and quality improvement reports into the SPE team. Maintain the scheme’s Ofsted audit readiness – requires an awareness of the Education Inspection Framework. Sub-contractors: Identify partner subcontractors and effectively manage the relationship with these bodies. Carry out sub-contractor due diligence as part of SPE QA requirements. Finance: · Responsible for the effective financial performance of the apprenticeship and graduate schemes, with the support of a designated Finance representative. Use your skills to move the world forward Experience and working knowledge of managing graduate / apprenticeship technical training scheme operations. Demonstrably strong enthusiasm for working with and developing early career professionals. Good interpersonal and communication skills, with a high level of situational sensitivity. Able to effectively manage and prioritise a busy workload. Good influencing skills, working with people at all levels in our business. We’ve got quite a lot to offer. How about you? It’s incredibly important that our people enjoy working here and therefore we take great pride in having a friendly, helpful and engaging culture. We also appreciate that development and training is important to many and that’s why we have a supportive environment which invests in our employee’s development, whether that’s Chartership, training or mentoring. Feel free to click on this link to see what it’s like to work here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vmmNjaEr04. Our compensation package includes a competitive salary, holiday allowance, pension and other additional benefits. We celebrate the fact that our employees are individuals and have different wants and needs. With this in mind, we have a flexible benefits scheme where you can tailor your benefits package to suit you. Siemens recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all our applicants. See our flexibility culture https://new.siemens.com/uk/en/company/jobs/life-at-siemens/flexibleworking.html. We have partnered with VERCIDA, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site where all our vacancies are in an accessible format. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made to enable you to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know via our FAQ section https://new.siemens.com/uk/en/company/jobs/faq.html. Organization: Digital Industries Company: Siemens plc Experience Level: Mid-level Professional Job Type: Full-time